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...take ear muffs and a flak jacket. Psychedelic rock crowds can be hostile collections of spacy Viet-vets still suffering from post-Viet Nam syndrome, pimply feminists in granny glasses and young high school dropouts. Bottles and firecrackers spin through the air. At a Grateful Dead concert, usually a four-or five-hour affair, the typical freak is a blend of drug hunger, male lonerism and musical knowledgeability. He will attend somnolently to the music (perhaps taking downers), then suddenly (probably after swilling a bottle of wine), sway ecstatically forward toward the performers. In contrast, the audience for Balladeer James...
...positions followed a week of vacillation by Heath's government. First the Energy Department raised the specter of sewage flowing in the streets as a result of power shortages (sewage pumps are electrically powered), then it announced that fuel supplies were ample enough to go back to a four-or five-day week. That possibility has now been withdrawn in the face of a strike. Then Heath was undecided whether or not to call for an immediate election. That, too, has been abandoned at least for the time being, probably because the Tories fear that they might lose. Other...
Dodge and Delay. One immediate issue dividing blacks and union leaders is the apprenticeship system, in which trainees undergo a four-or five-year learning period before being admitted as full-fledged journeymen. Blacks charge, with considerable justice, that the system is often used more as a barrier than as an entranceway. Only 4% of the apprentices in the union-regulated programs are black. Union leaders argue that the apprenticeship system is necessary to maintain a high standard of skill. It takes only 16 months to train an Air Force jet pilot but five years to train a plumber. George...
...previous year. This achievement appears even more significant when you know that the one seven million ton harvest was in 1952, when sugar was really the only Cuban export worth mentioning (besides cigars) and tens of thousands of hungry cane-cutters who could find work only during the four-or five-month harvest had to work fourteen or fifteen hours a day for an average daily wage of 80 cents. Now the entire economic organization is incomparably better, and there are grappling machines to pick up the cane and trucks with huge carts attached to them to carry the cane...
...tight and so simple that players led by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Jimmy Guiffre and others have abandoned it to hunt down a more satisfying freedom. Coleman and Guiffre both now play atonal jazz, and Miles Davis defected with his discovery of the "interlude," a four-or eight-bar figure laced into a song between phrases. Davis sometimes plays one dominant chord throughout a 16-bar interlude, making only rhythmic variations. Elvin Jones, the most richly inventive of the modern drummers, plays highly abstract polyrhythms that leave the old eight-to-the-bar style of jazz drumming...